Anatomy of a DDoS Attack, and What Mitigation Really Does
A look at how volumetric and application-layer floods actually work, what edge scrubbing does to stop them, and why an exposed origin IP can undo all of it.
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A look at how volumetric and application-layer floods actually work, what edge scrubbing does to stop them, and why an exposed origin IP can undo all of it.
When your origin server has no open ports at all, entire categories of attacks stop being possible. Here's how outbound-only tunnels work and what you give up to get them.